Where there's smoke there's not necessarily fire

Affiliations

¹ South Western Sydney Clinical School, The University of New South Wales, Level 2, Thomas and Rachel Moore Education Centre, Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, NSW 2170, Australia.

Review

M V Apte et al. Gut. 2005 Apr.

. 2005 Apr;54(4):446-7.

doi: 10.1136/gut.2004.048785.

¹ South Western Sydney Clinical School, The University of New South Wales, Level 2, Thomas and Rachel Moore Education Centre, Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, NSW 2170, Australia.

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Comment on

Cigarette smoking accelerates progression of alcoholic chronic pancreatitis.
Maisonneuve P, Lowenfels AB, Müllhaupt B, Cavallini G, Lankisch PG, Andersen JR, Dimagno EP, Andrén-Sandberg A, Domellöf L, Frulloni L, Ammann RW. Maisonneuve P, et al. Gut. 2005 Apr;54(4):510-4. doi: 10.1136/gut.2004.039263. Gut. 2005. PMID: 15753536 Free PMC article.

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